Male greater sage-grouse perform mating rituals on a lake outside Walden, Colorado, April 20, 2013. AP/David Zalubowski Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–April 4, 2017. Private investment in conservation represents an innovative solution to help build a healthy environment and economy, but a new report from the Center for American Progress finds that[Read More…]
Environmental
Senate Republicans Attack Scientific Foundation of Endangered Species Act
Proposed Legislation Part of Broad GOP Anti-science Agenda WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–April 4, 2017. Senate Republicans have introduced legislation to directly undermine one of the most basic aspects of the Endangered Species Act: reliance on the best available science to determine what animals or plants need federal protections. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and[Read More…]
New York Attorney General Schneiderman Announces Lawsuit and Other Legal Action Against Trump Administration for Illegally Blocking Cost-Saving, Pollution-Cutting Energy Efficiency Standards
Coalition Takes Action Against Trump DOE For Violating Federal Law By Obstructing Implementation Of Energy Efficiency Standards For Common Consumer and Commercial Products NEW YORK –(ENEWSPF)—April 3, 2017. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, leading a state and municipal coalition, today announced that he is commencing legal action against the Trump[Read More…]
Groups Threaten to Sue Trump Administration for Blocking Common Sense Energy Efficiency Measures
Rick Perry stands by as people across the country lose out on cost savings Rick Perry speaking in Orlando, Florida, in 2011. Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2017. Today, Earthjustice—along with Consumer Federation of America, NRDC, and Sierra Club—notified the Trump Administration of its intent[Read More…]
Western Environmental Law Center: White House Rejects Scientific Consensus, Guts U.S. Climate Policy
Taos, New Mexico–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2017. In an executive order released by the White House today, President Trump seeks to reverse the core policy safeguards put in place by the Obama Administration to address climate change. The Trump order represents a sweeping attack on action to account for intensifying and anticipated[Read More…]
Use Your Zip Code to Attract Brilliant Birds to Your Yard This Spring
Audubon’s Native Plant Database Makes Ecologically Friendly Landscaping Choices a Snap Audubon’s Native Plant Database Makes Ecologically Friendly Landscaping Choices a Snap NEW YORK — (ENEWSPF)-March 28, 2017. With spring arriving earlier than usual and bird migration currently underway, the National Audubon Society invites nature enthusiasts to grow bird-friendly[Read More…]
Sierra Club Says Attention Donald Trump: New Report Shows Clean Energy Employs Far More Workers than Coal, Oil & Gas
Clean energy jobs overwhelm fossil fuels in 41 States and D.C. WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2017. As EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt touts a new executive order attacking the Clean Power Plan, new Sierra Club analysis of Department of Energy 2017 jobs data across the energy sector makes it clear that the[Read More…]
Trump Administration Must Recognize that Water Security Due to Climate Change Puts Americans at Risk
Men fish in a partially dried marsh in Hor al-Hammar in southern Iraq, on March 27, 2009. AP/Hadi Mizban Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2017. The U.S. military, intelligence community, America’s closest allies, scientific experts, and many international organizations all count climate change as a threat multiplier with the potential to[Read More…]
Scientists Use ‘Beetlejuice Provision’ to Protect Data From Trump
Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2017. The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets[Read More…]
Bar Complaint Seeks Investigation of EPA Chief’s Potential Lies to Congress
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Pruitt Used Personal Email Address While Conducting Business as Oklahoma Attorney General WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2017. The Center for Biological Diversity and University of Oklahoma law professor Kristen van de Biezenbos today filed a formal ethics complaint with the Oklahoma Bar Association against U.S. Environmental Protection Agency[Read More…]
